{"id":202,"date":"2017-04-14T13:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/wewaitheworks\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-04-16T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:16:54","slug":"deepness-of-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/wewaitheworks\/2017\/04\/deepness-of-good-friday.html","title":{"rendered":"Deepness of Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a lot more to Good Friday than meets the eye. Good Friday isn\u2019t just a day to get off work and take a break. It is the day our Savior gave up His life for us. Good Friday is the day that He was turned over to Pilot for questioning. Pilot asked the crowd which one they wanted to release after he found nothing wrong with Jesus. The crowd chose Barabbas. It is the day that Jesus died for all of mankind on the cross to save us from the punishment hat we rightfully and justly deserve- eternal damnation in Hell for all of the sins we have committed.
\nJesus who had done nothing wrong had to decide to willingly and lovingly give up His life for us in the most horrific beatings. The beatings He took are more than any Hollywood depiction could ever allow us to see. Even Mel Gibson\u2019s movie the passion of the Christ doesn\u2019t do the real beatings that Christ received, justice. No matter how gruesome the beatings were, it doesn’t even come close to the real beatings our Lord and Savior received.
\nMathew 26:15-30 recounts some of\u00a0the events leading up to Jesus’s death.\u00a015 Now it was the governor\u2019s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, \u201cWhich one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?\u201d 18 For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him. 19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge\u2019s seat, his wife sent him this message: \u201cDon\u2019t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.\u201d20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.21 \u201cWhich of the two do you want me to release to you?\u201d asked the governor. \u201cBarabbas,\u201d they answered.22 \u201cWhat shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?\u201d Pilate asked. They all answered, \u201cCrucify him!\u201d23 \u201cWhy? What crime has he committed?\u201d asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, \u201cCrucify him!\u201d24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. \u201cI am innocent of this man\u2019s blood,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is your responsibility!\u201d25 All the people answered, \u201cHis blood is on us and on our children!\u201d 26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.”
\nJesus went through what He went through on good Friday in order for us to have the opportunity to have salvation and a chance for eternal life with Him in Heaven. How cool is it to know that He took our punishment upon Himself and suffered whipping, bleeding, and ultimately, death for every single one of us on the cross? No one but God has ever been that generous in our lives. Jesus knew even before He was born that He would end up dying on the cross.\u00a0 To think that He went to the cross and died for us with love on His mind, and He did it willingly. That must have taken Him a lot of courage.
\nHe even prayed in the garden that the cup of sorrow would be taken away from Him, if it was God\u2019s will. But He knew He would have to die to save all of us.\u00a0 He died so that each one of us could become clean again and become right with God. He offers us eternal life and eternal salvation with Him and His Father freely.
\nMathew 26: 38\u201439: 38 Then he said to them, \u201cMy soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.\u201d39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, \u201cMy Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.\u201d Jesus was so stressed out in the garden that he sweat blood. No other human being in history has been that stressed to the point of sweating blood.
\nGod knew Jesus had to die for the world\u2019s sins. He knew He even had to turn His back on His only son until He died. Jesus even said in Luke 23:46 \u201cFather into your hands I commit my spirit\u201d. In Mathew 27:46\u00a0 he said \u201cmy God my God why have you forsaken me?\u201d<\/div>\n
Jesus gives us the first true example of dying for the ones He loved more than Himself and even more than life itself. Even the verse from John 15: 13 \u201c Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u201d<\/div>\n
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